Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 725
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2004, 12:50 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2004, 12:50 PM MDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Baca County, CO, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 89 min |
| Aug 9, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 96 min |
| Aug 9, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 63 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more | 87 min |
| Aug 9, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa and 4 more | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 5:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Lincoln and 9 more | 66 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.